Category: Community
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Planet MariaDB underwent liberal facelift
Planet MariaDB has been reworked from scratch, getting a new instance with the same look and feel as the rest of mariadb.org.
Three news items, related to that: One bad, one neutral, one good. I’m saving the good one for last, as I hope you will like it.
Bad news: The old Planet had five different RSS feeds, we now have only one. We maintain the format changes only on one RSS feed, which means that some of you will […]
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A different kind of tech conference
Last Wednesday, I received an unexpected text: “Would you like to do some volunteering work? It involves speaking online to some kids for one hour about IT”. It was a classmate from high school.
MariaDB Foundation employees work remotely. Sure, we all meet together in one place a number of times a year so we don’t forget each other’s faces, but in 99% of our logged time, we are distributed around the globe. We are also not required to have […]
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Join the Solstice Run Sat 20 June 2020
Runners and not-yet-runners: join colleagues and friends for the Summer Solstice Sakila Run 2020! This gives energy and emotional closeness in times of physical distancing.
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Heads up: Renewing MariaDB Downloads
Time to renew downloads.mariadb.org! We are embarking on a long project. A large part of our user base mainly interacts with us through downloading new versions. Renewing MariaDB Downloads is the biggest-impact project of all of 2020, for that part of our user base.
Projects like this often get launched when external and internal impulses coincide. Our users have asked for a more consistent, simpler user experience. Advanced users would like a programmatic interface (a.k.a. REST API) for part of […]
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Business As Unusual
MariaDB Foundation faces an unusual world, just like anyone else in these Corona times. Or perhaps, not quite. Here are some ideas for how to cope with a world inhibiting travel and social contact as we know it, from someone who has worked from home for 20 years, with colleagues also working from home.
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Migrating from SQL Server to MariaDB on the MariaDB Knowledge Base
A new series, Migrating from SQL Server to MariaDB is currently being developed on the MariaDB Knowledge Base by Federico Razolli.
Federico is a freelance database consultant, organizer of the London Open Source Database Meetup, author of the book Mastering MariaDB, and well-known member of the MariaDB community.
The series of articles will contain everything needed to migrate from SQL Server, currently including an overview of architecture differences, feature differences, a types comparison, a look at MariaDB transactions and isolation […]
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Five Cities in India
A trip to Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and Mumbai taught MariaDB Foundation the importance of India. Government and Fintech lead the pack. India has a huge supply of highly educated IT specialists, and their decision power in selecting tools (including databases) is growing. India is moving from a body-shop for Europe and the US towards becoming a hotbed for startups, and for database training and adoption, India has a near-perfect language landscape for the MariaDB Foundation University Program.
Asia is […]
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MariaDB Server’s continuous integration & testing available to community
How MariaDB Server is tested
MariaDB Foundation is commited to ensuring MariaDB Server has a thriving community of developers and contributors. A software project cannot be maintained without proper tests. mysql-test-run is our standard testing toolkit for MariaDB Server. What it (mostly) does is run queries against one or more servers and compare their output to the expected one. This checks both behaviour and data consistency. The main principle is the server should always return the same data that is […]